The Bristol Post has reported a story this week of a painter who shuns health and safety rules by balancing stepladder on top of eight story high scaffolding
For many, health and safety is a necessary evil which sucks…

A York contractor has been sentenced after three workers – including a father and son – fell almost five metres when a work platform became disconnected from a telehandler
Hull Magistrates’ Court heard that on 1 December 2015, document.write("");…

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The scaffolding, document.write(""); which was erected in Cobham High Street, was seen leaning over the pavement on Saturday (October 21) after high winds hit Surrey
The Health and Safety Executive is investigating after scaffolding…

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A health and safety is investigating after a 27-year-old man was injured in a fall from a ladder on a building site
He had been working on a development of 106 homes in Baldwins Gate when the accident happened.
Emergency services were…

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The Health and Safety Executive has launched an investigation after workers were exposed to asbestos at an Aberdeen council depot
Asbestos in Kincorth depot
Open bags of roofing material covered in asbestos were found by workers beginning…

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a bill into a law Monday that requires most construction workers in the city to get at least 40 hours of safety training
It comes in the wake of a number of construction worker deaths on building sites.…

Another privately-owned housing block in Cardiff has been revealed to have cladding that has failed a fire safety test following the Grenfell fire
Image copyright: GOOGLECladding at Quayside apartments failed a fire safety test, …

At least 35 electricians working on renovations at the Sydney Opera House have been exposed to potentially deadly asbestos, document.write(""); according to the Electrical Trades Union (ETU)
Workers walked off the job on Monday after…

A Muslim woman working on London’s Thames Tideway ‘super sewer’ has helped design work clothing suitable for women on construction sites who wear a hijab and burka.
Above: Leena Begum models her designs
Leena Begum works as a health,…

A London construction company and a project manager have been fined for repeatedly failing to manage and control multiple risks
Health & Safety Executive inspectors made a number of visits during 2015 to two project sites where In House…

AN INVESTIGATION was under way last night after the body of a man was found on the site of the new Westgate Centre yesterday morning
Police officers were spotted on the roof of the new John Lewis store, document.write("");…

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